growing

All around me things are budding.  Tulip leaves are pushing themselves up from the ground.  Flowers are beginning to show their colors.  Trees are ready-ing their flair for another season - it's a time of growth! 

So how am I growing in the Spring time? Well, I've been thinking a lot lately about my first "from scratch" sweater - I think it's finally time for me to grow in that way as a knitter.  It's been mulling over in my head since late January only really getting a chance to see needle time now.  How fortunate are we in these times with such an overflow of information!  There are tremendous resources about how to design your own knits - how to make those designs knittable for others, how to figure out that magical rate of decrease to make waists and sleeves fit in perfectly...  So I guess there was only one thing to do - cast on.

This knit is going to be for the spring/summer so I want it to be a breathable but wearable knit!  I keep seeing myself wearing this with a nice pair of jeans and a long beaded necklace with a class of crisp white wine in my hand.  Most of it will be knit in stockinette with a nice firm border... I'm still trying to decide whether I want to pick up stitches for the collar or have it just knit right in. Ahhh decisions decisions!  I guess this is where the knitting and ripping and rethinking commences!

The yarn I'm using is the Rowan Purelife cotton. So far I'm really loving how it's knitting up.  There's a slight variation to the color which gives it a certain charm.  It's also very soft for a cotton.  I'm nervous about getting so involved and spending so much time on this and it not panning out.  But it's for me! (for now..) So Really I just need to have fun with this - to hopefully have something wearable in the end with lots of lessons learned, I'm sure!

For now, it's just a seedling, soon to be getting those April showers to make it hopefully bloom one day...

Comments

[mai]

oh this will be fun! i can't wait to see more progress. happy spring!

[Michaela]

Good luck! The swatch looks great!

[Nonnahs]

Too cool! Hey, your notebook looks like the exact kind I use (shocker)! Good luck (though I'm sure you won't need it)! xo-S.

[Ginger aka Beethoven]

Oh, I see you use check box pages as note book too! Mum has one of those... What did you write on it? By the way, we like the colour of the swatch :)

[stacey]

Very exciting!!! The yarn looks beautiful - perfect for an afternoon of wine and friends - I can totally see your vision!

[nova]

It's going to be lovely. I love watching the growth process of seedling to full blown plant, unfortunately I have the black thumb of garden eradication so I will have to live vicariously through you!